The Disasters Charter has been activated for a Flood in England:
Flood in England
Type of Event: Flood
Location of Event: England, United Kingdom
Date of Charter Activation: 27 November 2012
Charter Requestor: Environment Agency (of England…

The United States Department of Defense has released a new Space Policy and a Fact Sheet on the Policy. The press release states:
New DOD Space Policy Addresses Safety, Security, Access
By Cheryl Pellerin
American Forces Press Service

Aviation Law Prof Blog

A UK court today held that airlines could not delay payments for compensation claims under EU 261 while awaiting the outcome of a related case before the European Court of Justice. In this case, Jet2 had been postponing payment to...

Details are still emerging, but reports tonight of three Al Jazeera journalists in Paris for the operation of a remotely piloted aircraft illustrate the difficulty ahead in formulating appropriate public policy to meet the challenges…

Space Politics

I wanted to pass along some personal news: I’ve taken a position starting today with SpaceNews, as a senior writer there. I’ll be writing there on a lot about what you’ve seen here and elsewhere: space policy, commercial…

A day after NASA announced that the first SLS may not be ready for launch until as late as November 2018, two key members of the House Science Committee asked NASA for details on both the schedule and funding levels of the SLS and Orion…

An announcement Wednesday by NASA that the first launch of the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lift rocket could slip by nearly a year has led one key senator to suggest the program needs some budgetary help. NASA announced…

MARPA is extremely pleased to announce that Dr. Temel Kotil, President and CEO of Turkish Airlines, and President of the Association of European Airlines, will serve as the Keynote speaker for our first-ever AEA/MARPA PMA Aircraft Parts…

Register Now to Receive Discounts for the 2015 AEA/MARPA PMA Aircraft Parts Conference

The early registration deadline for the 2015 AEA/MARPA PMA Aircraft Parts Conference is fast approaching. In order to qualify for the earliest registration discount, registrants must register by January 31, 2015. For the…

US Government Meeting for Foreign Investors Could Be a Good Networking Opportunity for MARPA Members Seeking Capital

The U.S. Commerce Department will host an Aerospace Foreign Direct Investment Exposition right before the 2015 MARPA Conference in Las Vegas. MARPA members seeking investment capital may wish to attend this event before they join us at the…

German Supreme Court: tour organizer must not reserve alterations of the flying times;Austrian Supreme court asks CJEU for interpretion of Reg. 785/2004 and the Montreal Convention; Aviation Safety Network: accident fatalities at record low…

USA: DOT fines Virgin America for failing to make safety videos accessible to passengers with hearing impairments; Australia: hotel not liable for security guard; ECJ: the special VAT scheme for travel agents is not limited to sales…

Air Safety and Law

Its happening way too often… On Labor day weekend I got a text from a friend telling me that yet another Cirrus SR22 had crashed on landing… This time in Falmouth, Massachusetts. (read about Kreindler’s investigation here). He said,…

As we have noted on several occasions, the disconnect between the NTSB and the FAA on the subject of safety recommendations has long been a problem and concern for aviation safety advocates. Too often the FAA’s dual mandate to both promote…

Signs that the aviation industry continues to put “Safety First” and seek zero tolerance with respect to accidents are evident in data released today by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). This year’s numbers indicate…

FBI reports two defendants submitted false invoices to Delta and Northwest for work that was never performed for years.
The post Former Delta Employee Sentenced After $36 Million Scheme appeared first on Travel Blawg.

Global Entry is a popular Trusted Traveler program which requires an in-person interview. Just be sure not to show up with an active criminal warrant.
The post Texas Man Arrested At Global Entry Interview appeared first on Travel Blawg.

Puddle of Mudd singer arrested in Denver International Airport (DIA) for riding the oversize baggage carousel into a restricted area.
The post VIDEO: Puddle of Mudd Frontman Arrested After Baggage Carousel Joyride appeared first on Travel…

Dr. Ken Gottlieb’s Cessna 182 took off from Napa Airport with only Dr. Gottlieb aboard. As the Cessna climbed from the runway, it turned in the wrong direction. It collided with high terrain just north of the airport. Dr. Gottlieb…

6 Ways an Aircraft Owner Can Be Liable for an Accident When Someone Else Was Flying

Here are six ways an aircraft owner can be found liable even if he was not on board when the plane crashed:
Vicarious liability for acts of permissive user. In many states, an aircraft owner is liable by statute for any injury…

Following up on my recent posts on the incident, I had the opportunity to discuss the crash of AirAsia QZ8501 with Colin O'Keefe of LXBN. In the interview, I share my thoughts on the potential cause of the incident and what that might mean as…

In a landmark decision for film and production companies, the Midwest of the United States, and the unmanned aircraft systems industry, Buchalter Nemer’s Aviation and Aerospace Practice Group made history last week when it secured a…

On February 15, 2015, the Federal Aviation Administration published its highly anticipated Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on the Operation and Certification of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (applicable to UAS weighing 55 lbs. and…

The Montreal Convention of 1999 (“MC99”) establishes liability limits for commercial aircraft operators for damages in relation to the international carriage of passengers, baggage and cargo. Article 17 provides that the…

In July 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit released a ruling in the case of Campbell v. Air Jamaica Ltd. This decision confirmed that a passenger can only recover expenses arising from delay after being…

In January 2014, we reported on a decision of the Alberta Provincial Court acquitting on criminal charges of trespass eight members of an anti-abortion organization engaged in demonstrations in the Calgary Airport in 2011. The…

Gulilat v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. (S.D. Fla. Oct. 29, 2014). After boarding their flight from New York to Ghana, the two passenger/plaintiffs made a request to a flight attendant that they be reassigned to “upgraded comfort…

Aircraft Noise Regulation Must Revised to Protect the Public Health and Welfare

On February 6, 2015, an aviation industry trade group published a letter (http://bit.ly/1zLsrzR ) it had sent to the Secretary of Transportation and the FAA Administrator regarding, among other things, the recent events in Phoenix and…

Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx and FAA Administrator Michael Huerta announced on a Sunday, February 15, 2015, conference call that the FAA would publish its long-awaited proposed regulations for commercial use of small drones. Copy…

Judge John F. Walter of the Central District of California granted the Federal Aviation Administration’s Motion to Dismiss the City of Santa Monica’s lawsuit regarding whether the City had to continue to operate the airport as an…

Aviation Law Discussions

If you are looking to build time, or if you are simply looking for an excuse to fly more and maybe share some of the expense, one way to do that is to act as a safety pilot for another pilot in simulated instrument conditions. But with the…

Should You Buy Replacement Aircraft Identification Plates on the Internet?

These days, when I want to buy something, aviation related or otherwise, usually the first place I look is the internet. It is amazing what you can find and buy from the convenience of your computer. However, what happens is you need a…

Do You Know What "Pilot Performance" and "Professional Competence" Mean Under PRIA?

If you are an employer who receives Pilot Records Improvement Act ("PRIA") requests, you know that it can sometimes be hard to determine exactly which records do and do not need to be disclosed. If you are pilot, not only do you want to make…

The Montreal Convention is a multi-national treaty that governs the rights of passengers aboard international flights where the country of origin and the country of destination are both signatories to the treaty. Most developed (and many…

Injuries and deaths from propeller strikes are not widespread, but unfortunately they do happen. Most recently, a long-time employee of a skydiving company in Ohio died as a result of severe head injuries she suffered when she walked into a…

It isn’t just passenger planes missing one another. According to the Federal Aviation Administration (“FAA”), a pilot of a U.S. Airways flight recently reported a near mid-air collision with an unmanned aircraft, also known…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private U.S. company is on track to become the first commercial visitor to the International Space Station.NASA said Monday there's a good chance that Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, will make…

Moon or Asteroid? NASA's Next Giant Leap Depends On Who'll Be President

By Mike Wall, SPACE.com Senior WriterThe United States may start working toward establishing a moon colony by 2020, or an asteroid may remain the next target for manned exploration; it depends on who wins this November's presidential…

Summer time is vacation time and if your vacation potentially involves an aerial tour, make sure you do your homework ahead of time. Sightseeing tour flights generally involve helicopters being chartered by vacationing families seeking…

The FAA has called for the immediate inspection of certain areas of the external skin of all 737 – 300, -400 and -500 series aircraft. This inspection was prompted by the hole that opened up in the skin of a Southwest Airlines aircraft…

I wonder what do you think about Google’s decision to confront China’s censorship by pulling out of the country entirely despite a potential lost of profit for not doing its business with now the second largest economy in the word? A…

We are moving further away from the double dips danger! Last month the US economy added 162,000 jobs- a strong showing of a potentially more sustained recovery for US economy. Payroll gains are largely boosted by private sectors and much less…

Today, in an interview with Fox News in Beijing, President Obama warned that “the US economy could head into a ‘double-dip recession’ unless urgent steps were taken to rein back America’s mounting level of public debt,” reported the…